A lonely Montreal man finds love right as he is targeted for abduction by aliens in You Are Not Alone. Since the end of his previous relationship, Léo (Pier-Luc Funk) has preferred being alone, working night shifts delivering pizzas from his family’s pizzeria. Things begin turning around when Léo meets Rita (Marianne Fortier), a sweet-natured…
Two cousins from Dakar try to make the difficult journey to Italy in Io Capitano. Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) are two impoverished teenage cousins in Dakar, Senegal. Hoping to escape to a presumably better life, the two set out on the dangerous journey across Africa to Lybia, hoping to secure passage across…
A podcaster uncovers a conspiracy surrounding a mysterious black brick in Monolith. A disgraced journalist, credited only as The Interviewer (Lily Sullivan), has resorted to being the host of a conspiracy podcast called Beyond Believable. After receiving an anonymous e-mail, The Interviewer gets into contact with both Floramae (Ling Cooper Tang) and art collector Klaus…
A teenage vampire finds herself unwilling to kill humans for their blood in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person. Sasha (Sara Montpetit) is a 68-year-old “teenage” vampire, who finds herself feeling more empathy towards humans than seeing them as food. One night Sasha encounters suicidal teenager Paul (Félix-Antoine Bénard), who is completely willing to be…
An African-American author’s satirical novel becomes a sudden and unexpected hit in American Fiction. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is an author and English professor, who is placed on a leave of absence after a confrontation with an overtly politically correct student. In addition, Monk is informed by his literary agent Arthur (John Ortiz) that…
A woman volunteering in the fight against the Russian invasion of Ukraine helps a boy to locate his missing parents in Stay Online. Katya (Liza Zaitseva) is a volunteer from Kyiv assisting her brother Vitya (Oleksandr Rudynskyi) with installing GPS software on a laptop that once belonged to a man named Andriy Fetsenko (Roman Liakh)….
A Toronto carpenter builds tiny homeless shelters amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Someone Lives Here. As Toronto’s homeless population rose throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Toronto carpenter Khaleel Seivwright took it upon himself in the fall of 2020 to create tiny shelters that he would leave for the homeless in Toronto parks. While the public championed…
Two friends on a self-isolation trip during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic find themselves pursued by a knife-wielding killer in Sick. Parker (Gideon Adlon) is a COVID-denying teenager who decides to self-isolate at her family’s cabin, accompanied by her best friend Miri (Bethlehem Million). However, it isn’t long until a knife-wielding attacker disrupts…
A loser of a man is mistaken for an infamous assassin in The Man from Toronto. Teddy Jackson (Kevin Hart) is an aspiring fitness instructor who decides to rent a cabin in Onancock, Virginia, to celebrate the birthday of his wife Lori (Jasmine Mathews). However, Teddy accidentally ends up at the wrong place and is…
The rise and fall of the man who invented the modern bulletproof vest are explored in 2nd Chance. A former pizzeria owner, Richard Davis would invent what would become the modern bulletproof vest, with him shooting himself to prove its effectiveness. This would lead to him founding Second Chance, which would become the number one…
